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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 10m

I speak only for myself but there’s a ~1% chance I’d notice that on my own in an environment I didn’t expect it to be unless prompted to look for it.

I’d definitely have noticed this guy’s Nazi flag because I generally expect many R staffers’ offices have them

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 27m

if your response to this is, “oh sure Jeffries, like you’re gonna do anything” you need to log tf off and go do something constructive

it doesn’t matter if he plans to do anything. If you haven’t learned from Trump that repeating an intention is enough to make it an expectation, well…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 34m

Federal Judge blocks shutdown layoffs.

DOJ lawyer refuses to defend cuts, merely argues jurisdiction.

Judge: “This hatchet is falling on the heads of employees all across the nation, and you're not even prepared to address whether that's legal?”
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

UPDATE: A federal Judge has imposed a temporary block on RIFs during the shutdown, saying the Trump administration has:

taken advantage of the lapse in government spending, in government functioning, to to assume that that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and that they can impose the structures that they like on a government situation that they don’t like. And I believe that the plaintiffs will demonstrate ultimately that what’s being done here is both illegal and is in excess of authority.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 49m

"They were Nazis, Dude?" - The Big Lebowski

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

The White House told approps they would not be transferring the money. Not now, not ever. They said, explicitly, that they'd use RDTE money on milpers.

Direct deposits went out yesterday. No transfers happened. They spent RDTE money, which can only be used on RDTE, on milpers.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 49m

seems like the article has the thrust of it correct

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

Right now we’re still at “political constraints act against political courage to oppose Donald Trump.” Should Trump’s approval fall to 30%, that probably flips such that political momentum favors overt congressional action against him, of some form or another

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

Murkowski I think falls into the “shares in some the grievances” camp.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

The minority filibuster exists basically as long as the majority believes in its legitimate exercise. If the GOP minority did not believe this was a legitimate exercise of the filibuster, they’d get rid of it. But many believe the grievances Ds have are legitimate and may even share them.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, yes—nuked filibuster*

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

did you read to the end of the paragraph you posted? The bit about the communists?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

"Antifa in 1930s Germany were emphatically not the good guys; they arguably facilitated the Nazis’ rise to power, not only by helping create a culture of political violence but by directing a lot of their energy toward undermining anti-Nazi moderates."

9 Stupid Things People Are Saying About Antifa

A terrorist organization? A fiction? All Democrats? None of the above.

www.thebulwark.com

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

The notable bit here is that Andrew Johnson was, at the time the reconstruction amendments were ratified, on the extreme losing side of that political debate.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 2h

I assume it had fewer likes before stancil quote posted it

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 3h

Same, same

Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 5h

“It actually isn’t the very reasonable elected democrats; it is the millions upon millions of voters who support them that are the problem.”

That message is a recipe for concessions

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 3h

I think primaries are democratically important for local offices in localities where one party dominates, and they end up being important for other reasons nationally. We had superdelegates, but you risk real backlash if the superdelegates choose someone who got fewer primary votes.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3h

yup

sucks that they're in this position but you signed up for the big boy and girl responsibilities, and "regardless of what OLC said I know this is wrong but imma just put my head down" means you failed, and there has to be professional consequences

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 7h

Going to need a purge of remaining JAGs and referrals to bar discipline when this is over. If it’s ever over.

Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 3h

Andrew Johnson made basically the same arguments about the Freedmen’s Bureau (see veto messages pasted here from 1st veto and 2nd veto). The people who proposed and ratified the reconstruction amendments all thought he was wrong.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 3h

*raised questions, and perhaps also answered them.

Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 3h

The basic perception that gives is that the older man offering the defense is publicly auditioning to save who he perceives to be a damsel in distress.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 3h

The thrust of the criticism is that what she did was genuinely unethical and raised questions about both her integrity and unduly favorable coverage of RFK Jr.

When older men shift the focus from fair criticism to a gendered and sexist frame, it is actively not helpful.

Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · Jul 6

That’s what he was aiming at, but the original post was specifically about an Olivia Nuzzi article about RFK Jr framed around RFK Jr holding many liberal positions and basically just parroting him (eg below)

It was a weird choice of article to defend.

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